Selena Gomez says Justin Bieber split was 'best thing that ever happened to me'

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Selena Gomez has revealed her 2018 break-up with Justin Bieber was the 'best thing that ever happened to her' in her new Apple + documentary, My Mind & Me.The Wolves hitmaker, 30, who dated the Baby musician, 28, on-off for eight years, said she felt the 'worst break-up ever' had to happen so that she could learn to 'choose herself and choose life again.'The split provided the inspiration for her hit 2020 song, Lose You to Love Me, with the star saying: 'Everything was so public.

I felt haunted by a past relationship that no one wanted to let go of. Then I just moved past it, and I wasn't afraid anymore.

Right decision: Selena Gomez has revealed her 2018 break-up with Justin Bieber was the 'best thing that ever happened to her' in her new Apple + documentary, My Mind & Me (pictured in 2011)'I feel like I had to go through the worst possible heartbreak ever and then just forgetting everything at the drop of the hand, it was really confusing.

But I just think that needed to happen and ultimately it was the best thing that ever happened to me.'Adding that she had written the song in just 45 minutes, she continued: 'It's about more than a lost love.